Scientists have discovered how stress can lead to serious mental health problems. To better understand the function of type I ...

A new computational model of the brain based closely on its biology and physiology has not only learned a simple visual category learning task exactly as well as lab animals, but even enabled the ...

Humans have the remarkable ability to remember the same person or object in completely different situations. We can easily ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the human brain supports numerous advanced capabilities for centuries. The cerebral cortex, the outer layer of the brain, is now known to be ...

What goes wrong first in the Alzheimer’s disease brain? Scientists led by Marc Aurel Busche of the U.K. Dementia Research Institute at University College London may have an answer. In the May 7 Neuron ...

The mysteries of the brain have captivated scientists for more than 100 years, most notably illustrated in the detailed drawings of neuroanatomist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. These drawings and his ...

TREM2 created quite the buzz at this year’s AD/PD meeting, held April 1-5 in Vienna. In the wake of a TREM2 agonist’s demise, scientists presented optimistic findings from early phase trials of a ...